Hoojah
A platform for Malaysians to engage in structured objective discussions online.
The Inefficiency of Online Discussion Platforms
Today Malaysians go to social media platforms and online forums to discuss things that matters to them. It’s hard to keep track of a specific topic on social media platforms because different group of people discuss the same topics separately, hence failed to provide structural opinions and results. While online forum still uses old layout.
Subjective discussions make it hard for people to make decisions and eventually become noises. People need to process those discussion before come up with a point. Open polls is an objective question that could deter the users to discuss the topic subjectively.
And the open poll mechanism, while is created by the discussion initiator and answers are provided to respondents has limited options and could create frustration to the respondents if the answers are not based on their opinion.
Having high engagement in the topics doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot out of it. Numbers of engagement could be self-explanatory therefore, the outcome of the discussion is subjective.
These platforms rarely filter out their users, so a user can register multiple accounts and manipulate the discussion.
Hoojah's Objective
1. To become a platform for Malaysians to have structured objective discussions online. Every new arguments posted will be tied to a poll which only has three options: agree, neutral or disagree.
2. Encourage users to respond to other users’ arguments objectively to promote quality discussions. Thus, encourage ethical online discussion.
3. Create a trustworthy space in the Internet for Malaysians by verifying user’s identity and eliminate the noises in online discussion environment.
External Resources
Hoojah Tutorial (English)
Hoojah Tutorial (Bahasa Malaysia)
Hoojah Pitch (Bahasa Malaysia)